Supporting Liverpool FC can be bad for your career

DID a Government minister's passion for Liverpool Football Club cost him his £30,000 job?

There was much head- scratching when fire minister Parmjit Dhanda was axed - until it emerged he had been seen in deep and frequent conversation with our own George Howarth.

The pair were discussing Liverpool's recent good results, but the Knowsley North MP was, until last week - the Prime Minister's fiercest foe.

Poor Parmjit was apparently suspected of plotting . . .